“ To be persuasive, one must be believable.To be believable, we must be credible.To be credible, we must be truthful. ”
- Edward R. Murrow- Copy
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“ Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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“ Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems — but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
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“ Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ There is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ There's always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong. ”
- Henry Louis Mencken- Copy
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“ Authenticity matters little, though — our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility. ”
- David P. Mikkelson- Copy
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“ There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility — the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else… ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ Canals might indeed linger for a time as feeders… but every one now realized that the railroad was to be the great agency which would give plausibility to the industrial organization of the United States and develop its great territory. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see — not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness. ”
- Lewis H. Lapham- Copy
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“ The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. ”
- Norbert Wiener- Copy
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“ The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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